18 December 2007 | Uncategorized
We’ll return on Wednesday January 2.
18 December 2007 | Photography, Theory
In the October 2007 Text and Performance Quarterly, Ruth Laurion Bowman, Melanie Kitchens, and Linda Shkreli contribute “FEMAture Evacuation: A Parade“: On February 25, 2006, the Society for the Preservation of Lagniappe in Louisiana (SPLL) hosted the twenty-sixth Annual Spanish Town Mardi Gras Parade in downtown Baton Rouge … The 2006 theme, FEMAture Evacuation, took [...]
17 December 2007 | Theory
In the Fall 2007 issue of Symbolic Interaction, Carol Rambo writes: It was 1979. Ms. Marie Miranda, my ninth-grade art teacher, was a short, plump, leprechaun of a woman with yellow-blonde hair stacked in a lacquered, pin curl tower. Typically encased in a floral-print sheath dress, the curvature of her spine positioned her head in [...]
14 December 2007 | Modern
The latest issue (n. 73) of Review: Literature and Arts of the Americas is devoted to Brazil. Editor Nicolau Sevcenko writes that “Brazil is changing at a very fast pace … One of the best resources to face these turbulent new times and challenge their entropic trends is represented by the newly-expanded field of cultural [...]
13 December 2007 | Books, Modern
In the Summer 2007 issue of the Slavic and East European Journal, Douglas Greenfield reviews Maria Gough’s The Artist as Producer: Russian Constructivism in Revolution, while Vlad Strukov reviews Christina Kiaer’s Imagine No Possessions: The Socialist Objects of Russian Constructivism. Greenfield writes: In her closely argued, challenging study, Maria Gough proposes to read Moscow Constructivism [...]
12 December 2007 | Teaching
According to this article in Spiegel Online, German students are enrolling in art-history programs in record numbers, spurred on in part by the booming art market. However, students aren’t always finding the jobs of their dreams waiting for them on the other side — some settle for a part-time gig or even an unpaid internship.
11 December 2007 | Conferences
Coming this April: “Framing the Other: 30 Years after Orientalism,” a one-day conference at the Courtauld Institute of Art, London: This one-day conference will focus on the impact of Said’s legacy to analyse visual culture as a crucial component of Orientalism’s (and more generally imperialism’s) political self-justification, in the discursive construction of the Orient. Not [...]
10 December 2007 | Books, Photography
Writing in Le Monde des livres, Michel Guerrin recently panned the new 620-page survey L’Art de la photographie, edited by André Gunthert and Michel Poivert. The editors respond: Michel Guerrin has published … a methodical assassination of L’Art de la photographie. Everything gets it. From the “chilling” price to the deceitful cover. “Grand masters” are [...]
7 December 2007 | Books, Modern
Hans-Peter Riese reviews Andrei Nakov’s new four-volume study Kasimir Malewicz le peintre absolu: … On the other hand, [this book,] the result of Nakov’s decades-long research, can scarcely be overrated, and it finally moves this artist … to his rightful place among 20th-century artists, which is indisputably alongside Picasso, Kandinsky and Mondrian. In addition, Nakov [...]
6 December 2007 | Modern, Theory
The recently published book L’Œil-cerveau, written by Éric Alliez with the help of Jean-Clet Martin, seeks to understand modern painting in terms of “hallucination,” “a central notion for the nineteenth century that links artistic creation to ‘psychophysiological’ research”. “[Through close examination] of those works and statements constituting modern painting and the idea of modern art [...]
5 December 2007 | Books, Theory
Jacques Ranciere’s essay collection Le destin des images has been translated into English, as The Future of the Image. In the title essay, he writes: … Does not the term ‘image’ contain several functions whose problematic alignment precisely constitutes the labour of art? … What is being spoken about, and what precisely are we being [...]
4 December 2007 | Uncategorized
According to the Süddeutsche Zeitung, art historian Martina Baleva aroused controversy in Bulgaria after researching a painting of an event central to Bulgarian national identity: Early this year, Martina Baleva and Ulf Brunnbauer, academics at the Institute for Eastern European Studies of the Free University Berlin, planned an exhibition and a conference on a picture [...]
3 December 2007 | Books, Theory
Published recently, Art: Key Contemporary Thinkers, edited by Diarmuid Costello and Jonathan Vickery, “assesses the work of those thinkers (including artists) who have had a major impact on making, criticizing and interpreting art since the 1960s.” David Carrier writes on Arthur Danto, Stephen Melville on Michael Fried, Mignon Nixon on Melanie Klein, Alex Potts on [...]
